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If you read SoylentNews, Ars Technica, Reddit, or anywhere other than the other site, you've probably heard about SourceForge hijacking accounts and monetizing open source software with crapware installers. It seems the other site is intent on burying that information. Perhaps they don't consider it newsworthy?
For those still using SourceForge, there are many superior alternatives.
Update: 06/02 03:27 GMT by mrcoolbp : Slashdot ran the story this morning.
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Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge
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Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
(Score: 2, Informative) by arobadog on Wednesday June 03 2015, @04:31AM
I was a Slashdot Reader / Member since 98 or 99 (don't remember exactly). I am no longer.
SourceForge taking over Management of abandoned packages, is bad. Them packaging malware with the packages maintained by them is even worse. As this is one of the major sites used by nerds to get code / packages, this should have been a Slashdot (or any other site catering to the nerd community) story the moment it happened. I don't need to read a site that suppresses stories to protect it's sister companies.
I submitted an article regarding the GIMP / Sourceforge happenings and was flagged as having bad karma. Sure, in my life worse things have happened and have been done to me. But Slashdot has been taking questionable actions since being acquired by Dice (the site revamp that bombed for example) and this was the last straw.
The GIMP-win fiasco with Sourceforge was enough for me, time to move on from Slashdot, Dice, and family.